15 Facts About Johnny Poe

Johnny Poe was the third of six sons in a family that included three daughters.

All six Johnny Poe brothers attended The Carey School for Boys which later became the Boys' Latin School of Baltimore and all wound up playing football for Princeton.

Fifth son, Arthur Johnny Poe, was voted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1969.

Johnny Poe enrolled at Princeton University in the fall of 1891, and was elected president of the freshman class.

Johnny Poe re-enrolled the following Fall, and started at quarterback, moving to halfback midway through the season.

Johnny Poe played even better than in his freshman year, finishing second on the team for touchdowns scored.

Johnny Poe enlisted in the Fifth Maryland Infantry Regiment, and after over three years had risen to the rank of corporal, when the United States declared war on Spain on April 25,1898.

Johnny Poe worked as a cowpuncher in New Mexico, but longed for action and enlisted in the Regular Army's 23rd Infantry.

Johnny Poe was sent to the island of Sulu in the Philippines, where he served in Company F and as an orderly on General Bates' staff, seeing none of the action he had been hoping for.

In 1903, Johnny Poe joined the Kentucky National Guard, his detachment of which was sent to Princeton, Kentucky, to suppress uprisings which led to the "Black Patch Wars".

Johnny Poe was made a captain and put in charge of a gun in the siege of Amapala.

The war ended with the defeat of Honduran forces, and Johnny Poe returned to Nevada and mining.

Johnny Poe returned to his mining interest, taking a two-year break to join an expedition to survey the boundary between Alaska and Canada.

Johnny Poe was later buried there, between the German and British lines.

Johnny Poe's name was entered into the Black Watch roll of honor at Edinburgh Castle.